Re: em(4) problems.

Petri Helenius wrote:
> I´m highly confident that this is a case of integrated "CSA" ethernet 
> with broken BIOS. I suspect you get an message about that when booting.

Nope. no messages to that effect, oh and it works in windows(tm)...

The last thing I see if I try to use em0 is:
em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
and then the system locks up hard.

> Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> John Polstra wrote:
>>
>>> On 05-May-2004 Søren Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> For what its worth I have problems with one em based interface as 
>>>> well, it locks the machine solid when used:
>>>>
>>>> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.25> port 
>>>> 0xb000-0xb01f mem 0xfb100000-0xfb11ffff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci1
>>>> em0: Reserved 0x20000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfb100000
>>>> em0: Reserved 0x20 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0xb000
>>>> em0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>>> em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:80:9f:b6
>>>>
>>>> where this one works just fine:
>>>>
>>>> em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.25> port 
>>>> 0xa800-0xa83f mem 0xfa000000-0xfa01ffff irq 19 at device 10.0 on pci3
>>>> em1: Reserved 0x20000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfa000000
>>>> em1: Reserved 0x40 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0xa800
>>>> em1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>>> em1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:80:9f:b7
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The chips are these
>>>> em0_at_pci1:1:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x10758086 chip=0x10758086 
>>>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>>> em1_at_pci3:10:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x10768086 chip=0x10768086 
>>>> rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are either of the IRQs (10 and 19) shared with other devices?
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, the working one is shared with an (unused) USB port
>>
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-Søren